roosevelt, the acting secretary general of the united nations' founding conference in san francisco and recently named president of the carnegie endowment for international peace. he emphatically denied chambers delegation. and a great deal more than the reputations of these two men was a stake. if his was in the sense and anti communism and those closely associated with it, like richard nixon, a prominent member of the congressional investigating committee would be dealt a devastating blow. if he was guilty then anti communism would occupy a prominent part of the political landscape and a spokesman would become a national leader. furthermore, they each represented one side in the epic struggle of the cold war. one man symbolized the philosophy of freedom. western civilization. the other, the etiology of totalitarianism and marxism and leninism. both left and right understood that america and the world was at a critical point in history. consider the major political events that transpired between august of 1948 when chambers confronted his at a congressional hearing and may have 1952 wh